Cabbage - [kab-ij] Chiefly British
1. a. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim.
2. slang - verb. To steal; pilfer: He cabbaged whole yards of cloth.
Cove - (kəʊv) Brit, Austral
1. old-fashioned , slang - a fellow; chap.
Cabbaging Cove: A scoundrel keen on pilfering [from the annals of not-so-distant history]!
About the Cabbaging Cove
Improved Lifting and Spanking Machine
“…Just about the time he gets well started lifting, a trigger is automatically released, which causes the spanking paddle to spring into place and strike him on the kazabo, at the same time exploding a 32-caliber blank cartridge with a loud report…”
“Kazabo”. New favorite word for the derriere.
Catalog of Paraphernalia, Lodge Supplies, Uniforms, Banners, Badges, etc. DeMoulin Bros. & Co. of Greenville, Illinois, 1908.
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